“Each year, thousands of people in England and Wales are accused of crimes for which they are later acquitted. While their names may be cleared, they are often left emotionally and financially devastated – as Brian Buckle, who was wrongfully convicted of sexually abusing a child, discovered first-hand.
Rebecca Whitehurst, 47, from Greater Manchester had to find tens of thousands of pounds to pay for her defence after a pupil at the school where she taught made claims that they had engaged in sexual activity and exchanged inappropriate messages.
“Financially, it’s been the best part of £50,000,” she says. Rebecca adds that after she was found not guilty, she was awarded costs – but at the legal aid rate, which is much lower than the expense of instructing a defence barrister privately.“
[BBC]
Acquitted (in the first case noted above, only after 5+ years in prison, a successful appeal, and then a retrial), but left £50,000-£500,000 out of pocket.
All because Chris Grayling, a stupid arrogant man made a Cabinet minister by David Cameron-Levita, made stupid decisions which have even now not been corrected (though due to be, belatedly, corrected in 2026, apparently).
“Sir Keir Starmer will be ousted as Prime Minister within a year, an exclusive poll for The Mail on Sunday has predicted – with furious voters attacking his poor handling of the economy, the NHS, immigration and the cost-of-living crisis.
Nearly a third of all Britons polled in the ‘state of the nation’ survey expect the Labour leader to last another year at most, with more than two thirds (68 per cent) saying he is doing ‘badly’, just six months into the job.
And in news that will worry both Labour and the Conservatives, one in five voters thinks that Nigel Farage will be Britain’s next Prime Minister.
Last night, one Labour MP said privately: ‘If this poll doesn’t ring alarm bells in No10, then we really are doomed.
‘Sadly, it confirms what I and other Labour colleagues are now finding on the doorstep.
‘There never was much support for Keir. But after a catalogue of blunders – from scrapping winter fuel payments to hiking taxes – what little support there was for the Prime Minister has collapsed‘.
The exclusive Deltapoll survey reveals that 69 per cent think the country is heading in the wrong direction, with the cost-of-living crisis and the state of the NHS topping the list of concerns.“
[Daily Mail]
“Labour” is dead, the “Conservative” Party is dead, but the only straw at which the electorate can clutch is the very underwhelming Reform UK. Still, “all roads lead to Rome”…at least the System is crumbling, and the “Overton Window” moving.
Patriotic Alternative
Patriotic Alternative’s “2024 Year in Review”, with Mark Collett, Laura Towler (Laura Melia) and others, covering the waterfront, including material about now-released Sam Melia, Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) etc.
While I do not belong to Patriotic Alternative, they are (as far as I know) the most active social-national org in the UK at present.
If the broadcast cannot be seen or heard on this blog, it can be found via www.odysee.com
“Patients whose health has been ravaged after taking Covid-19 vaccines are calling for more support as the Government faces paying out tens of millions of pounds in damages.
Almost 17,000 claims for disability damages have now been submitted after new information emerged about the potential risks including blood clots.
...more people are coming forward to report that have suffered a severe impact, with some linking their vaccines to major problems such as blood cancer, myasthenia gravis and heart disorders.
Almost all of these payments were related to the AstraZeneca vaccine Vaxrevia which triggered a blood clotting complication so rare it was missed in original clinical trials.
That vaccine was once heralded as a ‘triumph for British science’ but came under increasing scrutiny for a very rare complication that causes blood clots and low blood platelet counts.
AstraZeneca’s withdrawal comes months after admitting in legal documents its jab can cause thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), also known as VITT.“
[Daily Mail]
I have myself seen examples, though I did not, of course, allow myself to be fooled into taking any of the System’s “vaccine” injections.
Talking point
Look at that. It is admitted that 3.6M or more immigrants have arrived even since “free movement” within the EU ended! That was in December 2020, so that number have arrived in only 4 years! In rough terms, a million a year. Unsustainable. Catastrophic.
“Net” immigration “only 2.3M (or more, in fact more) in about the same time period, but what that means, mainly, is that about 100,000-200,000 (real) British have left every year, trying to get to places such as Australia or New Zealand, or retiring to Spain and other countries. Also, many of the more useful/skilled EU nationals have left.
Incidentally, those Brits going overseas are mostly either genuinely skilled or qualified persons, or have capital and intend to open small businesses, or (and/or) are retirees, who bring money into the countries where they settle, and mostly do not constitute a drain on resources. Quite different to most of the migrant-invaders coming to the UK, who are mostly poor, unqualified, unskilled, and who are a huge drain on resources of every kind, from shelter and housing, through education, hospitals and GP services, to police services (many migrants are petty or not so petty criminals) etc; all that and right through to alien hostiles who may be terroristic.
As to Brexit as a whole, it was deliberately sabotaged.
Former Tory adviser, Samuel Kasumu: “My blood is boiling because of what (Tory MP) Robert Jenrick said…I think Robert Jenrick has the potential to be the most divisive person in our political history. Some of his words may result in some people dying”#bbclaurakpic.twitter.com/eUyz9AacqA
“Former Tory adviser“? Good grief. Just look at him. Just listen to him…
However much Labour is now already hated under Starmer, and despite the inherent absurdity of the “two main parties” binary political fix in England, I really cannot see the “Conservative” Party regaining much if any of its one-time support-level; in fact, I can see it declining further.
That, in turn, may give the uninspiring fake nationalism of Reform UK wings, despite the unexciting nature of most if not all of its 5 present MPs. It may be regarded by many angry/disenchanted voters as the only (protest) game in town.
“What are you in for?”
“For not wearing a mask when I went for a piss in a pub back in 2020. You?”
The crew of the Mi-28NM helicopter thwarted the rotation of Ukrainian troops by destroying enemy armored vehicles with air missiles in the border area of the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/eMQdGhSQu4pic.twitter.com/yyN7jAz3Nu
It’s truly shocking how complicit these people in authority were in covering this up. I worked briefly early 2000’s on Operation Ore for West Midlands Police. It is my belief that the targetting of pedophiles was so successful they shut down the operation.
(so much for their claims to be ancient, or to have any real connection to the Jews or Israelites mentioned in the Bible)…
“Here’s how all Zionist arguments collapse upon the slightest examination: “We were here first”: no, the Canaanites were, and many Palestinians have Canaanite DNA (& Jewish DNA as well, per Ben Gurion himself). Now prove yourself each of you is a direct descendant of someone who inhabited this land!
“We’re returning to our homeland” so said the French & Italians in Libya & Algeria “we are returning to & recovering Roman lands.” “But the West Bank is ours b/c of the bible”, that’s not how international law works, its utmost principle is a prohibition on acquisition of territory by force; i.e. you can’t just steal land by conquest & military power anymore!
“God promised it to us”; a) good luck arguing this in court. B) then why did he take it away from you for 2000 years? “We had a Jewish kingdom on this land for about 250 years”: and Muslims have been sovereign on this land for 1400 years! Does Greece have a right today to occupy Turkey’s Istanbul/Constantinople b/c it was once part of the Byzantine empire?
“The world gave us Israel in 1947”: no they didn’t & they don’t have the right to! The UN then had only 57 members out of 193 member states today. Even then, & despite intense US/Zionist lobbying & intimidation, only 33 states voted for (mostly white) the Partition Plan as a proposal. The partition resolution was never voted on at the UN Security Council.
“But we were persecuted in Europe for centuries culminating with the Holocaust”: but why should I pay the price of European savagery & antisemitism?
“We have a right to return 2,000 years later”, then why doesn’t my grandma have that right only 76 years later?
That’s why no state has a “right to exist”. Because who/what gave them that right?
Despite all this, Palestinians unrequitedly recognised Israel over 3 decades ago, accepted its existence as a fait accompli, & accepted less than 22% of our homeland; & that is called today “Palestinian maximalism/rejectionism”, while Israel offering us caged bantustans worse than apartheid South Africa is call “a generous offer”!
[Ashkenazic Jews in Jerusalem, c. 1885. God’s sake! Just look at them!]
“New research suggests that the majority of the world’s modern Jewish population is descended mainly from people from ancient Turkey, rather than predominantly from elsewhere in the Middle East.
The new research suggests that most of the Jewish population of northern and eastern Europe – normally known as Ashkenazic Jews – are the descendants of Greeks, Iranians and others who colonized what is now northern Turkey more than 2000 years ago and were then converted to Judaism, probably in the first few centuries AD by Jews from Persia. At that stage, the Persian Empire was home to the world’s largest Jewish communities.
According to research carried out by the geneticist, Dr Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield, over 90 per cent of Ashkenazic ancestors come from that converted partially Greek-originating ancient community in north-east Turkey.“
[Independent]
Talking point
Tweets seen
17 Rabbis arrested for running a crime ring harvesting organs from living people to sell.
One Rabbi sold kidneys for over a decade.
Palestinians suffer the same fate. This was admitted by the state. Not a conspiracy theory.
Three facts: Libya was better under Gaddafi. Iraq was better under Saddam Hussein. Syria was better under Assad.
Not that any of the three leaders mentioned was a particularly pleasant or “good” person, and all did very unpleasant or “bad” things, but we should decide matters of politics and geopolitics on the basis of what is the least-worst situation for populations and the world as a whole, not on the basis of unrealistic hopes (leading to violent chaos).
In fact, you can add Adolf Hitler and Germany to the list.
Salus populi suprema lex, the welfare of the people is the highest law [Cicero].
Could Starmer’s Labour Friends of Israel Cabinet be less competent?
Box-ticking former bureaucrat lawyer Starmer himself, Rachel Reeves the fake “economist” (aka “Rachel from Accounts” and/or the customer complaints dept, Halifax Building Society), “Refugees Welcome” idiot, expenses cheat and would-be dictator, Yvette Cooper, thick-as-two-short-planks “Deputy Prime Minister” Angela Rayner (and the rest).
It has already, after 6 months, got to the point where it is glaringly obvious that this fake “Labour” government has no more competence, indeed maybe even less, than had those of Sunak, Truss, “Boris”-idiot, May, and Cameron-Levita.
Interesting. The best aspect of that, were it to happen, would be the dismay amid the “woke” rabble of new Starmer-Labour MPs, over 150 of them, as they lose their seats and are forced to contemplate having to go back to doing mundane and probably badly-paid jobs again.
“The @Moreincommon_ MRP has Lab 228 seats Con 222 Reform 72 Lib Dem 58 Green 2 Proper hung parliament with the SNP (37) holding the balance of power.” [John Rentoul].
Fox has been, perhaps is still on, a socio-political journey, starting off as unthinking System-loyalist, then as conservative-inclined immigration sceptic (but pro-Israel, pro the Jewish lobby etc), and now seems to be moving towards a more social-national position, like many others.
[American-oriented but still relevant to British socio-political attitudes]
Russia is not satisfied with the proposals of US President-elect Donald Trump's team to postpone Ukraine's membership in NATO for 20 years and to deploy a contingent of EU and UK peacekeepers there, Foreign Minister Lavrov said in an interview with TASS:https://t.co/Y3kirnoq8Jpic.twitter.com/uhnT5znk17
Europe’s largest economies, from 1961 to 2024. Interesting to see how some of the countries have improved or downgraded. Turkey, in particular, registered growth in the mid-sections of the list; East Germany/DDR was fairly high until the 1980s, when it fell like a stone. West Germany was high, and indeed at the top even before it absorbed the Eastern part in the 1990s, and has been pre-eminent since then. The Soviet Union as a whole was the largest economy overall for some time, but fell back in the 1980s, after which Russia started to climb, despite missing the other former Soviet republics, and has for some time been one of the five strongest economies (overall), in the top five. The UK has been in the top five consistently.
Of course, were that graphic to be expressed per capita rather than in gross terms, the situation would look very different.
Did you know there was a time when America was Art Deco, a blend of elegance and precision, marked by soaring towers and unshakable optimism?
Even after the Art Deco era, America was pre-eminent in terms of confident presentation at least, until the 1960s. Look, e.g., at a film such as North by Northwest (1959), with its ambience of, inter alia, Modern Movement architecture, as well as, later in the film, the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright.
I think the SRA have spotted a great opportunity for solicitors. If you're a solicitor, you find a reason to drop your client, come back on as an 'advisor', and do the work in any way, anyhow you like, not bound by any rules and regs. It encourages enterprise and initiative.
That refers to the egregiously poor, dishonest, and negligent behaviour exhibited by “Mark Lewis Lawyer”, who is now supposedly domiciled in Israel, though he seems to spend much of his time in the UK, either making money out of clients (who seem rather poorly served), or thinking up stunts to publicize “antisemitism” and at the same time make money out of possible “compensation” (as in the failed stunt at the Reginald D. Hunter show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, when he cooked up a plot with his wife, Mandy Blumenthal, and Daily Mail junior scribbler Sabrina Miller). See
My own opinion is that, after the contrived Jew-Zionist storm that ensued after the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal reprimanded Lewis and fined him in 2018, the SRA is running a bit scared of the Jew-Zionist lobby and their characteristic contrived “claque” behaviour.
I expect you are puzzled to be tagged in by X’s loudest KC, Simon Myerson?
Myerson is again showing off his unerring grasp of the facts – for which he is renowned – and has got you completely muddled with Newbon’s employer @NorthumbriaUni.
Well, Myerson was sacked as a Recorder (p/t judge) after not very long. As for “KC”, I have noted before on the blog how it signifies not very much these days: in 1938, the later Lord Denning took silk, with three others, I believe, but in 2024 no less than one hundred silks (KCs) were appointed. “More will mean worse“, as Kingsley Amis said once in another context.
Many thanks to those of you who sent me this from Simon Myerson KC.
The link to Owen Jones’ piece on the BBC Gaza coverage is below.
What about the UK? Dr. Miller says nothing (in that tweet) about the UK. Maybe afraid of the “usual” troublemakers making contrived complaints to the police etc.
Late tweets
Blind cow who spent 19 years chained up can't stop hugging her parents — and she LOVES the house they made for her pic.twitter.com/MCLbDicMrM
That idiot seriously thinks that Britain was “dominant“, internationally, about 24 years ago! What planet is he on? Britain was then not only within the trammels of the EU etc, but was the “poodle” of the then Bush jnr. administration in the United States.
It really is about time that the British people demanded a lot more from the “security and intelligence” bods, or just dumped them, or most of them.
What has weakened Britain has been a combination of the migration-invasion, together with the changing demographics of the UK, the sliding standards in all areas of society, cultural degeneration, and the domination of the UK’s government, political life, courts, policing and mass media, inter alia, by the Israel lobby. Oh, and the near-collapse and uselessness of our armed forces (etc).
But the CAA collection aren't honest. Plus they are a charity run by intel svcs which is illegal.
The “CAA” cabal, effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London, can be called (as blogged about in the past) a malicious little cabal. They threaten a lot, suborn police and CPS officials, are a damned nuisance, but accomplish little even by their own standards.
They should not, of course, be treated as a charity. For one thing, they are directly political; for another, the activity of the “CAA” exhibits no “public benefit”.
Myerson likes his drink a bit too much, according to eye witnesses in Leeds..
Is that true (about Myerson being a heavy drinker)? I have no idea, though if true it might partly explain his vituperative social media activity, which was at least part of the reason he was sacked (sub nom “resigned”) as a Recorder earlier in 2024. He certainly seems to stay up late, tweeting. Drinking too? As I say, I have no idea.
Christmas University Challenge
Saw an episode which had the former MP and Cabinet minister Justine Greening on one team. Her ignorance, though frankly unsurprising to me, should be regarded as shocking in a former Cabinet minister. She even thought that Fulham is south of the river Thames! Remarkable, in view of the fact that she lives, or lived, in Putney…
Strange woman. Once involved with the ghastly mixed-race “Conservative” activist and notorious bully, Mark Clarke (featured in the past on the blog and now, like Justine Greening herself, politically —and maybe otherwise— washed-up). I read that she is now what the Russians call a “lesbianka“, though that may or may not be the case.
A good week for me: 9/10, thus beating —again— political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a more modest 6/10. I did not know the answer to question 8.
Talking point
Though Powell would never have spelled “dependants” in the American fashion as above. No matter. The quotation is otherwise correct, and accurate in terms of Powell’s prediction. The only thing he got wrong was in the numbers. If as few as 50,000 non-Europeans were to invade the UK in 2024 or 2025, even Reform UK, even the rump of the NF or BNP, indeed even I (perhaps) would be sighing a sigh of relief.
At present well over a million a year are flooding in; about 1.4M. Only a couple of hundred thousand are leaving in the same time period, together with 50,000-100,000 Brits. That means over a million more inhabitants each year, which would be unsustainable even if they were all British, or white Northern European generally. However, a million more a year, of which many, indeed most, are useless, parasitic, criminal, or downright hostile to European culture and people, is indeed mad, just mad. It must lead to the breakdown of society sooner or later, probably sooner.
In fact, as the links clearly show, the father was “typical” in that, despite making millions out of commercial litigation, he supported not only thick-as-two-short-planks would-be black revolutionist Nelson Mandela but also the (other) terrorists (Africans and Jews) put on trial with Mandela in the Rivonia trial of 1963-64 (they intended to start a race war against white European people in South Africa). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial.
Incidentally, if you look at the tweets of Matthew Stadlen, which I have just been doing (for the first time, I think, certainly the first time for a number of years), you see that he is socio-politically confused. He welcomes the end of the Assad government in Syria, but lashes out at a tweet by Kelvin Mackenzie who makes the point that the 30,000 Syrians now in the UK as asylum-seekers or grantees can now go back.
Likewise, Stadlen praises the open spaces he and his dogs are able to enjoy in southern England, yet wants migrant-invaders to be allowed to arrive unimpeded, and to be housed (etc) at UK-taxpayer expense.
Meanwhile, “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer and his thick-as-two-short-planks supposed “deputy”, Angela Rayner, prepare to trash even more of England so that hutches for migrant-invaders can be built on a massive scale.
Again, Stadlen seems irritated by the decline of London into a city of crime, violence and anti-social behaviour, but fails (wilfully, I think) to note who is actually doing the vast majority of that…
Appreciate your answering but won't pretend I understand these particular distinctions on advising. I don't think it really addresses the issues you raised in your first tweet. Seems evasive to this layman.
“So, one of the things the SRA seem to be saying – and I think this comes from the very top, Juliet Oliver, general counsel – is; – a solicitor can continue to advise a former client where a conflict has arisen between that solicitor and client – so long as the solicitor only advises the client and does not ‘act’ by communicating with third parties or the court.” [James Wilson]
I mean I could guess what sort of response the SRA would get, and what sort of epitaphs would be used against them, if they reined in what I also regard as excessive generosity.
The top graph refers to inflation, the bottom graph to national or state debt.
The above graph refers to percentage rate of poverty by household (black line) and of the population as a whole (blue line). A steady increase of both over the last 8 years.
Unidentified flying objects appear over New York and New Jersey, USA.
Donald Trump calls on the military to shoot down these objects, and state authorities ask the White House to send additional security reinforcements. pic.twitter.com/eywgd50fWE
Austrian MEP Harald Vilimsky against the European Commission:
" We reject this commission because it is synonymous with mass migration, deprivation of liberty, warmongering, deindustrialization and the decline of Europe!". pic.twitter.com/xtegGxYBwb
The new goal in Britain is to build 370,000 homes a year. But according to analysis we need to build 550,000 a year just to keep up with mass immigrationhttps://t.co/pWTmH3GVcU
If you look at this poll in detail you’ll find Reform are more popular than the Tories among everybody under 65, are more popular among men, are already taking 1 in 5 2024 Tory voters & are most popular among “none of the above” non-voters https://t.co/SnwoSmwwFz
The police can’t ban anything. The police can only apply to the Home Secretary for a ban if there’s a belief there will be serious violence or disorder or serious damage to property. Disruptions don’t meet the threshold.
Jew-Zionist barrister Simon Myerson getting the law wrong (again)…
[Update, 14 August 2026: I believe that Myerson’s Twitter/X account was hacked sometime in 2025, and the account then either closed or made not open to public view, so his legally-inaccurate tweet, answered above, is not now visible].
On a wider point, that whole traditional rank of “King’s Counsel” or KC should be done away with. Outdated, and now all but meaningless. As an ordinary barrister from 1991 (in practice from 1993) to 1996, and then from 2002-2008, I encountered QCs (as they then were) in court a number of times, and did OK against them quite a lot of the time, if I say so myself. Sometimes they won, sometimes I won.
I believe that about 1 in 6 of practising barristers are now “KC”. In the past, particularly before the Second World War, the proportion was far smaller, partly because those in a position to recommend and/or make the decision were more selective; partly, also, because there were fewer applications, and that was partly because a “KC” then usually had to “lead” a junior (non-KC) barrister, and so cost the lay client 2x, sometimes 3x or more, in fees. Some took silk only to find that they became far less busy. These days, not only does a KC often appear alone, but in some cases even unattended by a solicitor.
I believe that I recall from the memoirs of Lord Denning [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Denning,_Baron_Denning] that when he “took silk” (became a KC), in 1938, there were only 4 such “letters patent” granted that year, including his own. In 2024, no less than 100 persons became “KC” (5 honorary only, 95 ordinary).
Of course, in recent decades, arguably starting in the early 1990s, the pernicious influence of “political correctness” (now often termed “woke-ness”) has had its effect; it has never been admitted that the Bar now has some King’s Counsel appointed at least partly by reason of their “ethnic” background, but that such is the case is the opinion of not a few (including me).
Well, there it is.
As to Lord Denning, in his day, he was the most popular judge among the public; arguably the only popular judge, as well as the one with the most name-recognition. Opinion among barristers was less unmixed, though few if any would dispute his very great ability.
I saw Lord Denning up close only once or twice, notably when hurrying to the Library at Lincoln’s Inn in the early 1990s. My chambers were in the Inn at the time, and I was also a member of the Inn then (I was much later —2017— expelled, as an automatic consequence of my politically-procured disbarment of 2016).
I pushed open the very heavy oakwood Library door and missed, by only an inch or two, knocking over Lord Denning, who must have been about 94 (b.1899). I recall that he did not flinch, and smiled benignly as I held open the door for him.
[Lincoln’s Inn Library]
Incidentally, just now looking at Wikipedia’s article on Denning, I see that, by 1936 (2 years before he took silk), his income was some £3,000 a year (arguably worth about £200,000 in the money of today, and income tax was far lower in 1936). Impressive, but the leading silk of the day, Birkett, at about that time had an income of £25,000 (between £1.5M and £2M today).
By comparison, in that era, domestic staff in a large country house might receive between £100 a year (kitchen maid) to £250-£500 a year (chief gamekeeper, or for a valued chief cook or butler in a great household). Of course, most were fed, clothed, and given accommodation as well.
Still, Denning, in the mid-1930s, was making about 10x the income of a head gamekeeper, and perhaps 30x the income of a kitchen maid. Birkett, on a fee-income of between £25,000 and £40,000 a year, was making as much as ten times even those figures! Several millions a year, in 2024 money.
Social history. Interesting.
I see that, when Denning was made a High Court judge in 1944, his salary was set at £7,000, perhaps £300,000-£400,000 in today’s money, so rather more than High Court judges now get (around £225,000; and income tax is higher today).
More tweets seen
Ukrainian police are throwing more and more forces into forced mobilization The video shows the detention of a "hijacker" with the purpose of sending him to the front in the city of Khmelnitsky pic.twitter.com/LwZ0kPXqXd
“Towns targeted by Labour’s ‘bulldozer blitz’: The English councils that must build up to 21 TIMES more homes than they had planned to as Angela Rayner releases list of targets.”
The traitors at Westminster have to be rooted out, and the migration-invasion first stopped, then reversed.
“A homeless man who killed an NHS worker mother-of-three by repeatedly orally raping her as she lay unconscious on a park bench has been jailed for life.“
[Daily Mail]
So why was the bastard even here in the UK? Nothing in the Daily Mail report (of course). Looks Somali, but nothing in that very poor report about the origin or background of the criminal.
The Daily Mail “journalist” also describes the untermensch in question as having been “homeless” at the time that he killed the victim, but then goes on to say that the defendant drove away, went shopping after the attack, and then returned to his home!
No indication in that report as to why the defendant was even in the country. Nothing about the savage having a job, either, yet here the bastard is, in the UK, and with a home and a car, at that. Oh, and he had enough money to buy cocaine, apparently.
At least he thought to buy food for his cat, as it seems. I hope that the cat was not made homeless.
This country is so screwed, incredibly so.
Nothing that mass deportations or executions could not at least start to solve, though.
“Tim Montgomerie’s leap from the Tory ship to Reform UK? Now this is a statement. Thirty-three years of loyalty to the Conservatives, yet even he’s had enough of the dithering, U-turns, and wet centrism. Reform UK is becoming the island for those sick of the Westminster circus, a home for patriots tired of compromise and careerists. The Tories should be terrified—if stalwarts like Montgomerie are walking away, what does that say about the state of the party? Reform UK isn’t just nibbling at the edges anymore; it’s carving out a proper movement for common-sense politics and sovereignty. Watch this space, lads. The political realignment is only just beginning.”
Naturally, for anyone social-national, Reform UK is only a step forward, rather than any giant leap. Many of its expressed policies are wrong, and many of its candidates non-European. It is also pro-Israel etc.
Reform, however, may help to kill off the System parties over the next few years.
As for Tim Montgomerie, I have of course never had any time for him. He supported the fake “compassionate Conservatism” of David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne (both part-Jew) and the cruelties inflicted on so many by their policies, and by “welfare” (social security) “reformers” Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, the Jew “Lord” Freud etc.
Still, Montgomerie’s defection is an interesting commentary on the possible upcoming demise of the Conservative Party.
Reform UK is polling at around 20%. It has been there before, just about, but fell back to score only 14.29% at GE 2024. In my opinion, though, the fact that Reform UK was able to have 5 MPs elected (in contradistinction to other small parties of the past half-century and more) is more important than appears superficially.
To look at Reform UK’s underwhelming (in themselves and in terms of numbers) 5 MPs and say (as many Labour Party partisans, pro-EU drones etc, have done, expressly) “ha ha! You lost!“, totally misses the point.
For any small political party, under the UK electoral system, to get even one MP elected is huge; to get 5 elected at once is, well, massive.
That especially applies once one realizes that it was only the FPTP voting system, which since the 1960s has gradually ceased to reflect the real levels of political opinion in the country, which prevented Reform UK having about 93 MPs (14.29% of 650).
Under a (full) proportional representation system, Reform UK would have been awarded 93 MPs, the LibDems 79, the Conservative Party 154, and Labour 219, on the voting numbers at GE 2024.
In reality, were the voting system proportional, many more voters might have voted for Reform UK anyway, because not put off doing so by the perception that not voting Lab, Con, or LibDem is “a wasted vote”.
As can be seen from the graphic above, the present system of voting in England (particularly) is skewed against the smaller parties. Not Reform UK alone; the Green Party, under a fully-proportionate system, would have been awarded, at GE 2024, 42 MPs (6.39% of 650) instead of the 3 who were actually elected. Even George Galloway’s Workers’ Party would have 5 seats.
Some proportional-voting systems have a “threshold”, 1%, 5% etc, below which a party gets no seats.
We now have a Labour government which was voted for by a third (33.7%) of the actually-voting electorate, and by a mere 20% of the eligible electorate. It has only marginal legitimacy.
Having said all that, we are where we are. At present, the main two System parties still stand opposed to reform of the electoral process.
The SNP was founded in 1934, but only had its first MP elected in 1945, in a by-election, and he lost his seat only 3 months later. The next SNP MP won her seat in another by-election, in 1967, but lost it in 1970, though another SNP candidate won in another seat. At that time, there were 71 MPs holding Scottish constituencies.
The SNP did well in 1974, getting 11 MPs at one of the two general elections, but fell back to 2 in 1979. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, the SNP increased its support but even in 2010 had only 6 MPs out of the 59 then available in Scotland.
Then, in 2015, the SNP had its electoral miracle, based on a “Conservative” Party government at Westminster supported by relatively few Scottish voters, and on a Labour Party which had been supreme in Scotland since 1945, increasingly so since 1964 and then in the early 21stC, but which was perceived as being useless (particularly so in the Blair/Brown years (when Labour was in power at Westminster) and thereafter, when Scottish Labour was headed by the egregiously poor Jim Murphy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Murphy]. Murphy had been an unsuccessful university student for 11 years, and never did graduate, but became a Labour MP at the relatively early age of 29.
In 2015, Scottish Labour lost 41 of its 41 Westminster seats, while the SNP held or gained 56 (out of 59).
How does that relate to Reform UK in 2024 and perhaps 2029?
We have seen how the SNP took over a decade to get 1 MP, and 40 years to get a cadre of MPs, and how the SNP only surged to power 81 years after its foundation.
Reform UK, dating from only 2021, is however the same, in effect, as its previous persona as Brexit Party, founded in 2018, and a lineal descendant from UKIP (though that still exists as a small rump), founded in 1993.
Reform UK is now aiming to do in England, as well as in the UK as a whole, what the SNP did in Scotland in 2015, i.e. catch the wave of popular support. For Farage, Tice etc, there has to be that FPTP tipping point, the point at which the illogical, unfair etc FPTP system, instead of impeding Reform, starts to work in its favour.
Reform’s slightly underwhelming result at GE 2024 was purely the result of its support (and votes) being spread so thinly. Reform had considerably more actual votes than the LibDems, but few concentrations of votes. Where the concentration was dense enough, Reform got MPs.
The msm commentators, and the Labour and Conservative Party partisans, have not fully taken on board why Labour won so many MPs, and so won the election.
Labour won because the Conservative Party lost. Trite, yes, but the point is that —as can be seen from the percentage voting for Labour, only 33.7%— rather few people actually voted Labour, and most of those who did, did so in a wholly negative way, i.e. because in this or that particular constituency, the fight was perceived as being only between Lab and Con, or Lab and SNP in Scotland, and people desperately wanted rid of 14 years of “Conservative” misgovernment.
What, then happens when Labour, Starmer-Labour, Labour Friends of Israel Labour, is hated and despised as much as the Conservative Party was 5 months ago? Well, actually, that has already happened, but of course Labour is going nowhere, insulated from dissent, protest, and even riot by its very large majority (presently 156: see https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/government-majority).
It has taken Starmer only 5 months to put Labour down where the Cons were, in popular estimation, after many years, arguably 14 years.
If the voting patterns of several years continue, i.e. people voting against rather than for candidates and parties, then I think it entirely possible that, in voting against Labour, Reform might be the receptacle for those “anti” votes, more than the Conservative Party. In fact, I can see at least the possibility that both Lab and Con will slump, Lab to maybe 200 seats, and Con to somewhere below 100. If that were to happen, there would be about 350 seats going to others, in England maybe 250. Reform could be the main beneficiary of that.
It may be speculative to suggest that the next general election could see Reform UK as the party with the most Commons seats, but it is now not impossible.
How many seats could Reform get? I do not know. Anywhere from 50 to 200, if they continue to gather support. Reform came second in 98 seats at GE 2024; on the other hand, UKIP came second in 120 seats in 2015.
The only gamechanger I could see for the Cons would be if “Boris” Johnson were to come back into direct politics, take one of the few “safe” Con seats left, depose the Nigerian woman, Kemi Badenoch, then appeal to the public, “cosplaying” his favourite role as an am-dram Winston Churchill.
As regular readers know, I myself despise Johnson, and hold him in utter contempt. However, many voters do not. Stupid, maybe, but we must look at the realities. In fact, Johnson is not terribly popular with the voters; just more popular than Kemi Badenoch ever will be.
I have often wondered why Johnson was not granted a life peerage. He could have had one, had he wished. There is only one answer— he wanted to keep his options open. Were he to return as Con leader, he could not do worse than Sunak (or Badenoch) electorally, in my view. A “Boris” general election might steal much of Reform’s thunder. The Cons might even become the largest party again. Hateful to me (as is Starmer-Labour) but it might just happen.
At GE 2024, parties and individuals other than LibLabCon got a record 30.4%. That means that, already, if taken with the 40.2% of eligible voters who did not vote, 70.6% of people did not vote for the so-called “three main parties”.
In the early 1980s (when I took A Levels, studying for a few months alone in order to be able to get onto a law degree course, having dropped out of school a decade before, at age 16, in 1973), about 8% of candidates were awarded a Grade A. By 2009, that had grown to nearly 27%, despite the increase in the number of candidates.
In 2009, the concerns about grade inflation resulted in a new category being established, the A*. Look at the statistics. From 2009, about 8% were getting A* grades, but the ordinary A grades were, from 2009, running at around 18% or more. B and C grades were inflating even more.
As with the currency, grade inflation simply means that, in the end, the piece of paper becomes almost worthless.
Israeli war crimes— Genocide in Gaza
“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.
And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.
““My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people – more than 800 of them civilians – were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage. But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide. But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide. It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words. But there does need to be a clear intent. And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders – including the prime minister and the minister of defence – and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there. A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here. Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership. Lemkin – that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ – described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements. And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” – Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024 – Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024.“
Powerful.
That statement certainly puts the UK and US-based Jew-Zionist “human rights” lawyers in their place, the ones constantly tweeting about how what has been happening in Gaza is supposedly not a genocide because… [how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?].
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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer BLASTS Kemi Badenoch for being the ‘cheerleader’ of mass migration
'She was the cheerleader, she was the one urging on the removal of the caps for work visas… she championed it, she advocated it, record number of immigration!’ pic.twitter.com/JfOa2d8HCr
What really matters politically, though, is not the Westminster Bubble blame-game but what is actually happening on the streets. A million or more invaders every year (last year 1.2M) (yes, one or two hundred thousand leave, as do about a hundred thousand disenchanted Brits), and a steep slide in terms of public services, a decent society, crime, incomes, housing provision, and much else.
If things go on as they now are, there will be either a quietly-British form of social-national revolution somewhere or somewhen down the line, or (and/or) a kind of civil war mixed with a social war and a race war. A confused mixed picture, though, not a sharply-delineated and two-sided one.
In contemporary Britain, the truth is “inflammatory“…
I argued, in my long-ago talk at the London Forum in 2017, that people charged with such essentially political offences should never plead guilty.
Pleading guilty is understandable in ordinary criminal cases, in that it reduces the sentence where the evidence is overwhelming, but I consider it the duty of social-national and other nationalist defendants to plead not guilty. To plead guilty is to validate the prosecution. Also, in a jury case especially, you never know your luck.
I followed my own advice in my 2023 free speech trial.
Yes, I was still convicted, after a process that started, from my point of view, in February or March 2023, and ended with my sentencing hearing on 14 March 2024, but my “9-month community order” (probation, by any other word) ends in about a week, technically, and in reality finished in mid-September 2024; my “community order” sentence of “15 rehabilitation days” turned out to be half a dozen or so meetings ranging in duration from about 30 minutes to a couple of hours each.
Would I have been handed down a more lenient sentence had I pleaded guilty? I doubt it.
People at the Spectator Awards used to laugh at @Nigel_Farage. Last night, I sat in the room as he warned them Reform will cause an earthquake at the next election. There was total silence because everybody knows it could happen.
It does not even much matter that Reform UK would probably be poor at governing. The main thing is to smash the “two main parties” scam, and—to intrude a metaphor from the world of chess— to open up the board.
Happened to catch 10 mins of a TV jaunt around the Caribbean, presented by Clive Myrie. Needless to say, the black TV presenter focussed, when in Jamaica and Barbados, mainly on slavery, “reparations” for slavery, and on “racism” etc.
There was an amusing moment when Myrie met relatives in what I took to be their not unpleasant large villa, set amid a profusion of flowering plants. One of them mentioned how Myrie’s father had, after having moved to the UK, encountered “racism, not like you today“, but Myrie demurred. He obviously has that chip on the shoulder, despite being paid hundreds of thousands a year by the BBC and (as, co-incidentally, I just saw in the Guardian) large extra amounts moonlighting as well: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/04/clive-myrie-apologises-for-failing-to-declare-at-least-145000-in-outside-earnings-bbc.
Interesting to see that the two ethnic/racial groups most pro-Trump are white people (i.e. of European racial heritage) and American Indians (aka Native Americans), the two groups which can now be fairly termed “indigenous”.
We need universities where young people can speak their mind freely without fear and harassment. pic.twitter.com/OOnb62bv0Q
Not a new problem, though. I remember well when I returned from Rhodesia in 1977 and took a night job for a month, cleaning the floors at Gatwick Airport. All of the other temporary staff (about a dozen or so of them) were students from Sussex University near Brighton, all of them reading bs subjects such as Sociology. When they discovered that I had been in Rhodesia, the idiots all “sent me to Coventry”— would not speak to me at all, either doing the actual work (pushing large broom-type implements up and down the endless flooring) or in the refreshment area (I sat alone at a table with my machine-dispensed coffee).
Fortunately for those idiots, I have no idea of either their names or their whereabouts. If I did, I might feel that some belated justice might be due.
Sussex University, at least back then, had a problem with pseudo-radical students. I recall meeting some in 1975, while waiting in the very basic ferry passenger departure area at Vlissingen (southern Netherlands). At the time, there was a limited ferry service Vlissingen-Sheerness (Kent).
Later, though, around 1980, I was actually a guest of a student society at Sussex. They were very hospitable.
As for Gatwick Airport, I cannot use the South Terminal (the North Terminal did not exist in 1977) without thinking back to the days, or rather nights, when I cleaned those gleaming floors in the depths of darkness.
I am expecting the Stavka (Russian high command) to order a general advance westward and northward in 2025. If it happens and is successful, Zelensky and his regime will be rolled over.
“Let the IDF win to Fuck the Arabs”
Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans chant their genocidal song while being protected by the police in Amsterdam, this song they’re chanting has a part that says “there are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left”. pic.twitter.com/erGuS5Ael6
I happened to see a news item on TV today about tiny children having to be fitted with prosthetic legs because the Israeli Jews have been bombing Gaza for over a year, killing or terribly injuring about 150,000 Gazans, mostly women and children.
As for those Israeli Jew football hooligans in Amsterdam, they thought themselves brave thugs when in a mass, shouting slogans, singing unpleasant songs, and attacking others; when they got it back, they started whining about how they are “victims”; Netanyahu even sent a plane to “rescue” them and take them back to their fake “homeland”. It is all too typical.
Amusing YouTube video
A regular reader of the blog sent me this:
Very amusing.
Worth reading this lengthy blog post by Ian Millard on mischling Rory – begins in 2019, updated to present. Quite revealing:https://t.co/2GLIt4Tf1q
Ha ha! Hilarious, as are all such people and their (either) soon-to-be-“trumped” triumphalism and/or desperate and crazed outbursts once they realize that not only has their candidate lost, but also that they themselves have become worldwide laughing stocks.
It reminds me of the days, weeks, months after the Brexit Referendum in the UK, when you had hysterical women (almost all the funniest crazed tweets were from women) wailing about how the Brexit vote had “ruined their lives”, prevented them (somehow) from getting a 1970s Martini ad-style beautiful Euro-life, and how, in some cases, their offspring, teenage Josh and Jemima, would now (somehow) never be international lawyers and/or “top models”…
President-elect Donald Trump will pull his country out of the Ukraine conflict, leaving EU leaders in an "uncomfortable and difficult position," Hungarian Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/4nUlOk7zA9
I am old enough to remember those little shops. One in particular, in Caversham Heights, near Reading, early 1960s. The sweets were dispensed by the owner, I think an otherwise-retired old fellow, who sold them in small white-paper bags. A wide range, but I either bought small boiled sweets (very small balls of hard candy), or a kind of chewing gum that came with collectable cards depicting (and explaining) battles of the American Civil War of the 1860s. I wanted the cards, not the gum.
Very gory, those cards (as I discovered only when I belatedly read law, 20 years later) were the subject of a legal case (as to whether they counted as “obscene” because of their bloodsoaked content), which case went as high as the House of Lords (House of Lords Judicial Committee, the forerunner of the present UK Supreme Court). That was around 1965, only a couple of years after I used to buy the cards.
I remember that all my friends (who also bought the cards) favoured the Confederate side, but I (alone, I think) favoured the Union. Not sure now, over 60 years later, whether that was because the Union side was more efficient, or more advanced in weaponry, or just because I wanted to go contrary to the views of the mob.
The sweetshop in question was actually made out of the front part of an ordinary late-19thC house, which (I see from Google maps and streetview) has now reverted to being just a house again.
I also remember the little sweetshop because, aged about 7, I sheltered in that tiny shop after I (God knows why, now, but it would have been in self-defence) hit another boy, and then was sought out by the much older, and rather fearsome, brother of the same. In the end, the older boy caught me outside but, after I explained that I had hit his brother in self-defence, he was very reasonable, and let me off. Maybe I had dormant barristerial skills even then (or at least the ability to get out of scrapes)…
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Among others I was widely criticised in the summer for tracing the riots to the fact “we’ve let too many people into our country who hate who we are”
Labour politician here blames conservative for linking immigration with crime while knowing the gvt won’t give us, taxpayers, data on crime by migration & then blames conservative for “dog whistle politics”. People have had enough of this constant gaslighting https://t.co/n5wNFJoNNJ
Thangam “Debbonaire”, an ex-MP who uses a fake name (her real or original name was “Singh”, but she changed it by deed poll, presumably wanting to sound less “ethnic”), and who was kicked out by the voters at GE 2024, is invited onto TV to opine about immigration and public order etc. Why? She has no real locus standi any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thangam_Debbonaire.
What you see on Twitter/X/Westminster today is many of the same people who blamed “far-right thugs” for “misinformation” in August now saying citizens have no right to ask legitimate questions about new information that has come to light, including when, exactly, it was known by…
Working-class men in the West have been smashed on two sides as elites & global firms offshored jobs to exploit cheap migrant labour overseas then imported masses of low skill migrants to exploit cheap migrant labour here at home https://t.co/nn4u7GO5aF
The people instinctively know that the System parties are rubbish, but also feel that, equally, there are no credible non-System parties for which to vote, only the very underwhelming Reform UK. Certainly, there are no credible social-national alternatives.
Look at what “they” are doing in Gaza, in the West Bank, and elsewhere. “They” always do such things when they have power. That is why “they” must never have power and, whenever they do have power, must be removed from having power.
South Korean and Qatari armies held a joint exercise. The South Korean army was represented by K2 tanks and K9A1 self-propelled artillery units pic.twitter.com/72H0FqqTEH
Terrible, but good to see that the lady’s companion animal was also rescued.
US has funded 73% of military costs associated with Israel’s war on Gaza
Washington has provided $22.76bn in military aid to Israel since the Oct 7, 2023 to Sept 30, 2024, according to analysis by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs… pic.twitter.com/fbH5kUDuuh
It is absolutely bananas what we are doing to the UK economy. Think we’re importing lots of high skill workers? That’s a little bit of the blue bar. The rest is a low-skill, low-wage Deliveroo economy that’s sapping our prosperity https://t.co/KPXX4VnTqTpic.twitter.com/MDlOxk1o9h
Big tax. Big debt. Big borrowing. Big state. Big welfare. Big immigration. Big regulation. All to get to small growth of around 1.5%. Britain's not working and it's the British people, as usual, who will have to pay the price.#Budget24#Budget2024
The state of Britain is so frustrating that it is tempting to shout “Full Communism Now!“, but that, of course, is not the answer. I recall that the Dowager Lady Birdwood opined that I was a “national bolshevik” (when I was aged about 18, around 1975)!
Don't complain about how much welfare benefits cost. Over 40% of Universal Credit goes to people who are working. No one working should need UC. No one is even trying to solve the real problems in the UK.
True, but the “welfare” bill would be very low were it not for the existence of literally millions of non-white parasites in the UK, both the migrants and the children and grandchildren of migrants and former migrants.
Talking point
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Former MI6 officer: Unknown air defense system led to failure of Israeli attack on Iran!
Alistair Crook, British diplomat and former MI6 officer:
“The Israeli planes, which were supposed to destroy the air defense systems with long-range missiles at the first stage, did not… pic.twitter.com/VReGzmGgb2
🇱🇧 The Israeli army blew up several neighborhoods of the Lebanese city of Deira with the explanation that it was destroying Hezbollah's infrastructure , reports the Lebanese media. pic.twitter.com/48FgsYilBS
Russian drone drops a net disabling Ukrainian drones in the skies of Donbas. The war in Russia – Ukraine has accelerated the capabilities of drone warfare. pic.twitter.com/KgHcsr5QhY
BREAKING: The right-wing party in Germany is WINNING big time among blue collar workers with 46% in the Brandenburg state elections according to exit poll.
Public confidence in the government has collapsed as new poll shows 60% believe Labour will lose the next election and half think Starmer won't hang on as PM. Less than 3 months in, and the wheels have fallen off his bandwagon. Is he the most hated PM?https://t.co/J0mpvb1bQs
🔴 Sixty per cent of voters believe Sir Keir Starmer’s party will not manage a second term in power, less than three months after its landslide election victory.
Still, one has to admit that, for a woman who got “knocked-up” at 16, and who has really no substantial educational or work background, let alone cultural depth, Angela Rayner really has hit the Lotto in terms of careerism. “Deputy Prime Minister”, no less…
As frequently blogged previously, Starmer-Labour is “Blair-Brown New Labour Mark 2” but, in Marx’s words, “first time tragedy, second time farce“…
“New Labour” did various things, implemented various policies, mostly wrongheaded in either conception or implementation, or funding, or all three, but it was at least attempting to do things, to solve perceived problems.
I always had the impression about Starmer-Labour, even before it took over the reins of power, that it merely wanted to be in government, but had no real programme (a bit like Cameron-Levita’s government).
Hope you can sleep well in the knowledge that many pensioners will this year have to decide between eating and heating!
Brainless-seeming woman, “full-time carer” and “mum of five“, attending Labour Party Conference, and loving both thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity-hire” David Lammy and the Ukrainian thug who is the current ambassador of the Kiev regime in the UK.
“Britain is back!“, says Lammy. Does he mean “…black“? Oh, no, wait a minute…that would be 2034, or 2044 or 2054...(etc).
Frighteningly thick, whatever.
The direction of travel of the UK is clear, unless it can be stopped or reversed.
"While a man, whether due to mental ill-health, fetish or otherwise, may desire to conceive and give birth to a baby, the FACT of the matter is that it is a BIOLOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY. But not so, apparently, among NHS professionals." READ for more –> https://t.co/P0Cza8ckZHhttps://t.co/6ttMMK315q
The NHS needs to be taken firmly in hand and directed to the path of reality.
Over the past 24 hours, the 🇷🇺Russian Armed Forces have significantly expanded their control zones in the Toretsk area, as well as in the village of New York, Tsukurino, Gornyak, Vodyanoye, Ugledar and Prechistovka in Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/Q4OzY1mvm1
The UK msm is not much reporting the war in Ukraine at present. That probably means that Russian forces continue to advance, particularly in the Donetsk region.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 South Donetsk direction: advancement of the Russian Armed Forces on the Konstantinovka-Vodyanoye and Novodonetskoye-Prechistovka lines
Situation as of 13:00 on September 23, 2024
Russian troops continue to carry out a chain of offensive actions in several areas of the… pic.twitter.com/EAwikrDIke
A long and interesting report from the Financial Times, from a correspondent presently in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, almost on the front-line, and the report published only 7 hours ago.
Looks as if the situation in that region of Eastern Ukraine is at a tipping point. Russian forces will soon prevail, precipitating a strategic withdrawal or even rout of Kiev-regime forces, and a huge strategic advantage for the Russian side.
Once the Kiev-regime incursion in the Kursk region of Russia, by north-eastern Ukraine, falters and fails, as seems inevitable, the Russian Stavka (high command) will be able to transfer thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of battle-hardened troops back to the Donetsk region front, thus further pressuring the Kiev-regime forces there.
⚡️🔥⚡️Another Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry fighting vehicle destroyed in the Kursk border region⚡️🔥⚡️ pic.twitter.com/Rl2fTlXlTH
🇷🇺🇺🇦In the lead-up to their escape attempt from the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 3 mine area, Ukrainian forces encountered intense pressure from Russian drone operators of the 57th Brigade. These operators focused on targeting Ukrainian personnel near the ventilation shaft and the mine,… pic.twitter.com/5VDArZYO9I
One must feel sorry for those hapless Kiev-regime soldiers, sent to fight, inadequately trained, under poor field commanders and poor strategists, for the Jewish-Zionist regime in Kiev, all under cover of a fake “Ukrainian nationalism” which is merely doing the will of foreign NWO/ZOG cabals.
War is hell, of course, and in some respects becoming ever more hellish now that drones dominate the infantry battlefield, with robot tanks and robot soldiers probably not far down the line.
BREAKING – Boos erupt again at Labour Conference over ‘desperate’ attempt to stage-manage the mandatory member-vote on axing Winter Fuel Allowance. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has now delayed the vote until Wednesday, amid a furious back-stage spat involving union bosses and MPs. pic.twitter.com/VUV7FwhJdb
No dissent allowed. Young heckler grabbed by his throat by Labour goons, and hustled out, getting roughed-up a bit (even where the cameras are filming).
Actually, look at the audience. Despite much said about Labour and “youth”, most of that audience of Labour loyalists consists of grey-haired and white-haired people, especially on the tiers at the back and sides of the hall.
A pretty small audience, too, compared to the Labour conferences of the past (1970s, 1980s).
Of course, in the past, the major Labour figures had weight, and some of them (Denis Healey, Harold Wilson, Michael Foot, Roy Jenkins etc) had genuine intellectual depth. Not that I agreed with much of what they had to say, but they were not dummies, not even that old humbug and hypocrite Michael Foot.
Now look at the top Labour-label idiots! Starmer is the one-eyed man in the country of the blind, and they therefore made him “king for a day”. Angela Rayner (need one say more?). Rachel Reeves. David Lammy, that deadhead…(etc). Shockingly low-quality.
“A devastating nuclear strike on London causing 850,000 deaths with two million injured has been simulated by a staunchly pro-Putin propaganda TV channel.
[Daily Mail]
Worth reading. Something like that, or worse, could happen if the rush to war with Russia is not halted. Preventing such a war should be the number one priority for statesmen of all nations.
“Israel’s ‘war on five fronts’: How Jewish state faces all-out conflict against its Middle Eastern enemies after ‘killing hundreds’ in latest Hezbollah strikes as Lebanon accuses it of carrying out an ‘extermination’.
Israel intensified the conflict in the Middle East to new levels today, killing more than 180 people in Lebanon in the latest attacks since military officials declared a ‘new phase’ of war against Hezbollah had begun last week.
Hezbollah in 2006 reportedly had some 15,000 rockets in its arsenal, ‘but more recent unofficial estimates suggest this number has multiplied by almost 10 times,’ said Dina Arakji, associate analyst at UK-based risk consultancy firm Control Risks.
Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) corroborates that assessment, estimating that the group’s arsenal counts 150,000 to 200,000 rockets, including ‘hundreds’ of precision missiles and thousands of drones.
Hezbollah also boasts a range of anti-tank and anti-air systems, a fleet of thousands of drones, and dozens of tanks and armoured vehicles, and claims to have up to 100,000 active fighters – though INSS estimates the number is more likely 25,000 to 50,000.
And, like Hamas, Hezbollah has an extensive tunnel network along the Lebanese-Israeli border which serves as a strategic asset for clandestine movement, storage, and guerrilla warfare.
While Jerusalem would assuredly emerge victorious thanks to its technological capabilities and raw numeric advantage in terms of firepower and manpower, Hezbollah would be able to inflict massive damage.
Its terrifying missile and drone arsenal is large enough to quickly overwhelm Israel’s air defences if deployed in earnest, and the thousands upon thousands of Hezbollah fighters that could stream into northern Israel would be continuously supported by well-established air and ground supply routes from its chief backer Iran via Iraq and Syria.
The Islamic Republic has thousands upon thousands of long-range and precision-guided missiles alongside hundreds of thousands of mid-range cruise missiles.
This appears to be the worst-case scenario feared by Israeli defence experts – a coordinated attack in which Iran, Hezbollah and other allies launch wave after wave of missile and drone strikes that overwhelm Israel’s air defences and devastate towns and cities.
But many analysts say that terrifying prospect is unlikely…
…some prominent Israeli officials – including grizzled IDF veterans – warn that Jerusalem’s pursuit of further hostilities could push the Axis of Resistance a step too far.
Itzhak Brik, a former Major General in the IDF, told the Jerusalem Post that a full-scale war with Iran and its proxies could ultimately result in the destruction of the state of Israel.
‘Iran and its proxies have 250,000 missiles, rockets, and drones encircling Israel, which means about 4,000 munitions hitting the Israeli home front on a daily basis.
‘Population centres, Haifa Bay, water and electricity facilities, gas fields [in the Mediterranean Sea], IDF bases, and strategic civilian infrastructure… A regional war can ruin the State of Israel,’ he concluded.“
£148k-a-year Deputy Mayor of Culture Justine Simons. All she does is go to pointless events and expense Londoners for taxis there and back (also a flight to Brazil). OH, and she's responsible for the Fourth Plinth.
Starmer is despised and hated. Not all political leaders, though, are afraid to meet and walk among the people…
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“Mark Lewis Lawyer”—latest news
Regular readers will be aware that James Wilson, a university lecturer, won a libel case against two Jews, Cantor and Mendelsohn. A third defendant, a vicious Jewish online troll called Pete Newbon, killed himself during the trial, having concealed his activities from his wife.
At conclusion of the trial, the judge criticized, and found not credible, the evidence of a number of Jewish “witnesses” called for the defendants. Among those witnesses, Adam Cailler (Daily Star scribbler), Joanne Bell (prolific on Twitter sub nom “@jobellerina”), one Nathan Comiskey, and Simon Myerson, a notorious and vituperative Jewish barrister and, at the time, Recorder (p/t judge) who since the trial (though not because of it), has been removed from the Bench by reason of his unpleasant social media arguments and remarks.
Mark Lewis, the egregious and now mainly Israel-based solicitor, acted for at least one, and I think at least two) of the defendants. The lost trial and the aftermath of that trial, brought out that Lewis had, not for the first time, misled the Court, and also had misled (whether deliberately or negligently) his own client(s), in telling them that, were he/they to lose at trial, his/their family home(s) would not be at risk in relation to the damages and costs of the proceedings (costs incurred by the victorious claimant, Wilson).
The Court, at and after conclusion of trial, made it clear that those homes were at risk, not protected. Lewis’s negligent or (arguende) deliberately dishonest behaviour and advice has thus put at risk the homes of the losing defendants.
I missed what has been happening in the past few days:
The Defendants in my case have to pay me £80k in costs tomorrow.
Their solicitors should pay, in particular Mark Lewis (@MLewisLawyer) of Patron Law (@LawPatron) because of the unbelievably appalling conduct.
Indeed. I hope that is about to change though. One might imagine that when the truth comes out about one of the UK’s leading media litigators, then it might be newsworthy?
Not sure whether Wilson is “tongue in cheek” there. Mark Lewis “one of the UK’s leading media litigators“? He must be joking. Lewis is just a self-promoting fraud, his dishonesty covered up (and his abilities hugely puffed) in past years by a Jewish-Zionist newspaper and TV cabal.
When Lewis was found guilty in the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018, his own Counsel asked the panel to limit any fine on the ground that Lewis was impecunious, his only assets being his own clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter! Lewis was said not to own his own home, and even the car he drove was being paid for by the DWP scheme “Motability”.
The losing defendants, who were plainly misled by a cabal of their fellow-Jews, face losing their family homes. Wilson seems far more concerned about them than I would be in his place. Those Jews were after all (all of them, not just the hapless losing defendants) willing and eager to see Wilson and his family lose everything, including their home, so I say F*** them!
Wheels are in slow motion with the SRA. I suspect they’ll announce whether they are going to do anything, or give Lewis and Patron Law a clean bill of health, in the next few weeks.
Even if the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority does not, once again, put Lewis on professional “trial”, I imagine that his losing client or clients will very likely sue him in professional negligence to recover the monies (at least the costs monies) lost (apparently) by reason of Lewis’s poor advice. We shall see.
Those photos of Lewis must have been taken at least a decade ago. He is now scarcely able to get in and out of his wheelchair without assistance, as was seen recently after his latest scam (assisted by his now wife, Mandy Blumenthal) crashed and burned at the Edinburgh Fringe:
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Video footage of ‘Israeli couple’ at the Reginal D Hunter gig in Edinburgh, who turned out to be professional UK Zionist victims Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal, famous for Corbyn-bashing, representing Rachel Riley in legal actions and various publicity stunts.@reginalddhunterpic.twitter.com/XPpeZK7A9g
He’s superficially plausible though. And Patron Law’s website describes him as “The UK’s foremost media, libel and privacy lawyer Mark Lewis”. And he was willing to act on a no-win no-fee basis.
I think that I can claim to have been the first, or one of the first, to have seen through the Mark Lewis scam/hype/fraud. He was trying to have me disbarred and/or prosecuted since about 2012. Look at my blog posts about him (eg via the search box on the blog) for full details.
What’s strange is that Patron Law claim that Lewis is the “UK's foremost media, libel and privacy lawyer”.
I say Lewis’ advice and conduct in my case were terrible.
But neither Lewis nor Patron Law will defend what happened or threaten me with libel. Why? https://t.co/qDlGBKD0Jj
Lewis has never threatened me with a defamation suit either, though in my case my armour is, at least in part, my own impecuniosity.
No. I doubt the Defendants have the cash at bank or in hand to pay my costs.
They are also innocent parties in this disaster.
I do know that the firm of solicitors who provided the Defendants with terrible advice have the cash at bank and in hand to pay my costs though. pic.twitter.com/nzxN3M3JJE
Again, Wilson credits the losing defendants with far more than I would. They were guilty parties too, in my view. Surely Wilson does not also let the horrible Newbon (deceased) off the hook?
There must now be very serious concerns about the advice given by Mark Lewis to Pete Newbon before his tragic death.
My opinion is that Lewis’ conduct in my litigation was so poor, that Patron Law should suspend him pending an independent review of his files.@MLewisLawyer… https://t.co/qDlGBKD0Jj
I note that Lewis, once a prolific tweeter, and even quite recently a daily tweeter, and who famously was caught out having bought tens of thousands of fake Twitter “followers”— he still claims over 27,000 (at one time his fake “followers” numbered nearly 80,000), has not, as of today’s date, tweeted for a full three weeks. He must know that the game is up. I think that he will soon scuttle back to Eilat (Israel), if he has not done so already.
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Marcus Tullius Cicero pic.twitter.com/T0tXPB6SXQ
Nigel Farage: “I don’t give a damn who the next Conservative leader is. The truth is the brand is bust. They’ve let the country down too many times. People have had enough” #Reform
I agree with Farage on that point, but he too has not been steadfast.
Farage and Reform UK are pro-Israel, pro the Jewish lobby, not social-national, and so not “the answer” Britain needs.
Also, Farage has made it plain that he bases his hostility to mass immigration not on race and culture, but solely on general mass culture and on whether the immigrants “integrate”. I disagree.
Having said that, people cannot vote or flock to the banners of a party or movement that does not exist. At present, there is no credible social-national movement or party in the UK, a situation which has been the case since at least 2010 (when the BNP was destroyed), or maybe the 1970s or, arguably, since the start of the disastrous war against the German Reich in 1939.
What we have now is a situation in which the “Conservative” Party has been binned (though unfortunately not totally), and in which a fake “Labour” Party has, by reason of a ridiculously unfair and illogical electoral system, achieved a fake “landslide” by default, a “landslide” in which only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters (and 4 out of every 12 voting voters) voted Labour (and many even of those only because they wanted the “Con-men” and women binned.
Labour is already failing, and will achieve nothing in its projected 4-5 years up to 2029. However, the “Cons” are not a viable alternative, a fact underlined by the present uninspiring and mainly non-white leadership contest.
On that basis, Reform UK (which after all was voted for by over 4M voters, over 14% of the total) must be in with a good chance over the next 4-5 years.
Reform UK is not “the answer”, but it may be the start of an answer, or part of the answer, though the “Parliamentary road” is only one road.
“Keir Starmer is ‘running scared’ at the growing backlash over his plans to axe winter fuel payments for 10 million pensioners, the Tories said last night.
As Parliament returned after its summer break, the Prime Minister warned panicking Labour MPs that he would not tolerate dissent over the raid on the elderly, saying he would be ‘really tough on this’.
In a move which has infuriated opposition MPs, government sources indicated ministers would reject calls for a Commons debate and vote on the controversial plan, which was pushed through during the summer while Parliament was in recess.”
[Daily Mail]
What a brave little man “two-tier” Keir is! Willing to be “really tough” in repressing pensioners…
The bastard has only been Prime Minister for two months (as of tomorrow), and has already shown, comprehensively, that he is in the wrong job.
People must keep in the forefront of their minds that only 4 people, out of every 20 eligible to vote, voted Labour; and only 4 out of every 12 that did vote, voted Labour.
Starmer-Labour has no real mandate to govern.
Starmer has told the Jew Zelensky that Labour intends to supply the shambolic, brutal dictatorship in Kiev with £3 billion p.a. (supposedly indefinitely) from British taxpayers, while cheating British pensioners out of about £1Bn-£2Bn annually in terms of winter fuel payments.
At least that money will not have to be sent to the Kiev regime for too long— the dictatorship will probably be rolled over within a year or so.
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21,063 illegal migrants have now crossed the Channel this year, 7,477 since Starmer's Labour came to power
135,385 have now entered Britain illegally since 2018, equivalent to a city the size of Exeterhttps://t.co/2L7hI23QUA
…but that figure for “illegal” migrant-invaders is only about 5% of the whole immigration invasion or migration invasion in that time period.
Germany has now started to deport migrants back to Afghanistan. 7 EU states have called to revise safe zones in Syria to allow the return of refugees. Many are now waking up to the disaster the elite class has created. The UK should do the same https://t.co/fiigufysE3pic.twitter.com/8RciHeHC94
Sooner or later, the whole cultural sector in the UK will have to be purged.
Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, enthuses about the crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza by what he calls “our heroic soldiers” – yes, if you or I conflated the Jewish people with Israel, we’d be called antisemites.
“Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, enthuses about the crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza by what he calls “our heroic soldiers” –yes, if you or I conflated the Jewish people with Israel, we’d be called antisemites.
He then reveals that his son, Danny, is among the soldiers in Gaza. He says he is “immensely proud” of what these soldiers are doing in Gaza – so far they have killed 23,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
He concludes: “What Israel is doing is the most outstanding possible thing that a decent, responsible country can do for its citizens.” Is Mirvis not giving his religious blessing to genocide here?“
The sheer cheek of the bastards (((them))). Mirvis was born in South Africa, lived much of his life in Israel/Palestine, relocated to Ireland, and finally washed up on our shores. Now he purports to tell us what to do and what not to do. Typical.
[Mirvis with Labour Friends of Israel member and apologist Yvette Cooper, now Home Secretary; a moneygrasping expenses cheat and would-be dictator]
As to “genocide”, one reads all sorts of nuanced arguments as to whether the mass slaughter indulged in by Israeli Jews in Gaza (and elsewhere) is or is not “genocide”. Does the label really matter? They have done what they have done…
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[SS-man and others with kitten, dandelion bloom, and grenade; people often forget that love for animals was integral to National Socialism, a theme later expanded on by such as, notably, Savitri Devi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitri_Devi]
[“Badenweiler“, but no matter…]
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Hardly anyone knows that universities spend huge amounts of taxpayer money on international students. The British Academy is particularly bad. UCL one of many examples. NB. PhD means you can bring dependents. pic.twitter.com/lFbnqBxL1q
The Russian ambassador to the USA, Anatoly Antonov, believes that the United States will not be able to "hide behind the ocean" if the situation in Ukraine turns into a global one.
“The Russian ambassador to the USA, Anatoly Antonov, believes that the United States will not be able to “hide behind the ocean” if the situation in Ukraine turns into a global one.
Other statements by Antonov:
– No arms deliveries to Kiev will change the situation on the battlefield.
– Washington’s idea that Russia collides with Europe using the Ukrainian crisis will not pass. – Agreements between Ukraine and the USA regarding the conflict in Ukraine are being implemented “without the knowledge” of Russia. – American officials ignore the obvious atrocities of the OSU: murders, violence against prisoners of war and ordinary people. – The recent visit of Ukrainian officials to America was aimed at “begging” for weapons and money, but also to tighten Washington’s policy against Russia. – The American project “Ukraine” brings huge sacrifices for the Slavic people, but Russia will cope with the new challenge.“
The post-election honeymoon is over, with Keir Starmer's favourability ratings falling to their lowest levels since he became prime minister, recording his worst net favourability score since February
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 3, 2024
Interesting both in itself and in the fact that Iran is supplying Russia when, in days of yore, the old Soviet Union would have been the one supplying, and Iran (etc) the recipient, whether or not the actual end user.
No detail, of course, as to how many, what type, what payload etc. It is impossible (for me) to assess at all what weight the missiles will have on the battlefield.
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 3, 2024
Hard to see how that accomplishes anything. The high-value targets are those involved in electrical production and distribution, the railways, the roads, military activity and, above all, the higher-ranking members of the Kiev regime itself. Bullseye? Zelensky.
Hungary will not survive without Russian oil, says Foreign Minister Szijjarto :
" If Hungary stops oil supplies from Russia, we simply will not survive, we will not be able to feed the country in a broad sense. We simply will not be able to satisfy the demand for fuel"
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 3, 2024
“Hungary will not survive without Russian oil, says Foreign Minister Szijjarto : ” If Hungary stops oil supplies from Russia, we simply will not survive, we will not be able to feed the country in a broad sense. We simply will not be able to satisfy the demand for fuel” Earlier, Szijjártó accused the European Commission of protecting “Ukrainian blackmailers” who threatened the energy security of Hungary and Slovakia.“
From what I saw 23 years ago, Hungary is a decent country of usually-reasonable people, not a corrupt mess like Ukraine.
The best Ukrainian pilots were killed even before the Western countries delivered F-16 fighters to Kiev, writes the "Wall Street Journal". 🇺🇦 They include pilot Alexei Mesya, who died while piloting an F-16 fighter jet last week, as well as Andrei Pilshchikov, who died last… pic.twitter.com/ja5LaJaIiZ
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 3, 2024
“The best Ukrainian pilots were killed even before the Western countries delivered F-16 fighters to Kiev, writes the “Wall Street Journal”.
They include pilot Alexei Mesya, who died while piloting an F-16 fighter jet last week, as well as Andrei Pilshchikov, who died last August during a training flight. The newspaper emphasizes that both soldiers participated in a meeting with US senators in June 2022 and actively advocated for deliveries of F-16s to Kyiv.”
The USA could include long-range JASSM cruise missiles in a new aid package to Ukraine as early as this fall , writes Reuters. pic.twitter.com/7eMpKIkDdf
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 3, 2024
The shortest distance between the Ukrainian border and Moscow is 523 miles; therefore, in principle, Moscow could be hit by such missiles.
The Kiev regime should bear in mind that Russia has many thousands of long-range missiles, including thousands carrying, or capable of carrying, nuclear warheads.
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'We're quite bad at talking about Britishness.'@GoodwinMJ says 'there is something incredibly unique and special about coming from these islands' and calls for more celebration of British history after a survey finds there's been a steep drop in national pride. pic.twitter.com/uZLJQtO4t4
“...a steep drop in national pride“? Is that surprising? The population of the UK is now about 20% non-white, in England specifically much higher, and in the major cities such as London and Birmingham the figure is about 50%; in some cities much higher.
The English person finds himself or herself wandering the streets full of non-Europeans, many of which in the UK are predators and/or scavengers.
It becomes impossible for the “average” English person to buy or even rent a property.
A million or more migrant-invaders enter the UK every year, few leave, but about 200,000 real Brits leave the UK each year, desperately seeking a better life, mostly in Anglophone countries such as Australia, New Zealand etc.
What is there to be proud of now? In fact, there are still things of which we can be proud (new transport infrastructure, some rewilding and other environmental programmes etc), but nothing that really touches the heart; and socially, educationally, culturally, the country is sliding all the time now.
The UK is slowly sliding to a kind of social/cultural/civil war of sorts, made complex and sluggish by a number of factors.
The Israeli Defense Forces hit the Namaa College in the Gaza Strip, under the pretext that it was being used as a Hamas base. pic.twitter.com/kTfYa8ohoP
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 3, 2024
President of the Israel: We are burying our soldiers one after another
We are fighting on several fronts and experienced the biggest defeat in the history of Israel and the biggest security failure. pic.twitter.com/l8fsvKmIt3
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 3, 2024
"We need it at the moment"
Zelensky told NBC News that Ukraine plans to hold the captured Russian territory in the Kursk region indefinitely pic.twitter.com/B78OB2WLW0
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 3, 2024
The Kiev-regime forces will probably not be able to hold that territory even until the end of this year.
